Preferences of 303 students from WU Wien for different CEMS universities.
Usage
data("CEMSChoice")
Format
A data frame containing 303 observations on 10 variables.
preference
Paired comparison of class paircomp. Preferences for all 15 paired comparisons from 6 objects: London, Paris, Milano, St. Gallen, Barcelona, Stockholm.
study
Factor coding main discipline of study: commerce, or other (economics, business administration, business education).
english
Factor coding knowledge of English (good, poor).
french
Factor coding knowledge of French (good, poor).
spanish
Factor coding knowledge of Spanish (good, poor).
italian
Factor coding knowledge of Italian (good, poor).
work
Factor. Was the student working full-time while studying?
gender
Factor coding gender.
intdegree
Factor. Does the student intend to take an international degree?
preference1998
Paired comparison of class paircomp. This is like preference but the comparisons between Barcelona an Stockholm are (erroneously) reversed, see below.
Details
Students at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (https://www.wu.ac.at/) can study abroad visiting one of currently 17 CEMS universities (Community of European Management Schools and International Companies). Dittrich et al. (1998) conduct and analyze a survey of 303 students to examine the student’s preferences for 6 universities: London School of Economics, HEC Paris, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi (Milano), Universität St. Gallen, ESADE (Barcelona), Handelshögskolan i Stockholm. To identify reasons for the preferences, several subject covariates (including foreign language competence, gender, etc.) have been assessed. Furthermore, several object covariates are attached to preference (and preference1998): the universities’ field of specialization (economics, management science, finance) and location (Latin country, or other).
The correct data are available in the online complements to Dittrich et al. (1998). However, the accompanying analysis was based on an erroneous version of the data in which the choices for the last comparison pair (Barcelona : Stockholm) were accidentally reversed. See the corrigendum in Dittrich et al. (2001) for further details. The variable preference provides the correct data and can thus be used to replicate the analysis from the corrigendum (Dittrich et al. 2001). For convenience, the erroneous version is provided in preference1998 which can therefore be used to replicate the (incorrect) original analysis (Dittrich et al. 1998).
Source
The Royal Statistical Society Datasets Website.
References
Dittrich R, Hatzinger R, Katzenbeisser W (1998). Modelling the Effect of Subject-Specific Covariates in Paired Comparison Studies with an Application to University Rankings, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society C, 47, 511–525.
Dittrich R, Hatzinger R, Katzenbeisser W (2001). Corrigendum: Modelling the Effect of Subject-Specific Covariates in Paired Comparison Studies with an Application to University Rankings, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society C, 50, 247–249.
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London : Paris 186 26 91 0
London : Milano 221 26 56 0
Paris : Milano 121 32 59 91
London : StGallen 208 22 73 0
Paris : StGallen 165 19 119 0
Milano : StGallen 135 28 140 0
London : Barcelona 217 19 67 0
Paris : Barcelona 157 37 109 0
Milano : Barcelona 104 67 132 0
StGallen : Barcelona 144 25 134 0
London : Stockholm 250 19 34 0
Paris : Stockholm 203 30 70 0
Milano : Stockholm 157 46 100 0
StGallen : Stockholm 155 50 98 0
Barcelona : Stockholm 172 41 90 0
specialization location
London economics other
Paris management science latin
Milano economics latin
StGallen finance other
Barcelona management science latin
Stockholm finance other